assessing the relationship between verbal and mathematical skills

objective: the objective of this study is to evaluate verbal and mathematical skills among young children. method: the population of this study is composed of 5 and 6 years old children from nursary schools of the welfare organization in east of tehran. an 10 test on 218 children, was administrated and 120 individuals were selected as the subjects for the present study. the 10 of these subjects were 90-110. the research apparatus used in this research were mathematical scale and verbal classification test. the data were analyzed statistically. findings: the findings of this research indicate that there is a significant and direct correlation between verbal and mathematical skills among the subjects. the other findings of this study show no significant difference between the mean scores of the verbal and mathematical skills obtained by girls and boys. besides there is a significant difference between the mean scores obtained by 5 and 6 years old children in verbal skills